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Hi, my name is Andy and welcome to Radio Headspace. It's Monday morning and I don't know how you feel

kind of going into the week. I feel very often there's a scent, even when you sort of look at the

chatter on social media and everything else, it's like, oh, Monday's coming and it's like the same

old thing back to work. There's a scent even before we kind of begin the week that there's going

to be sort of some repetition. Like we're going back to the same old thing as though the weekend is

somehow a break for that. We don't think of the weekend in that way. Like, oh, it's just the

weekend. It's always the week, right? And there's a sense of perhaps wanting something new and chatting to

a person about this. They were saying that for them, they find meditation incredibly repetitive.

It's not necessarily going into the week that they find repetitive is the act of sitting down and

watching their breath. And as though this were sort of unusual, it's not. And perhaps they might be

the only person who experienced that. Again, they're definitely not. A lot of people have that. And

it's really important to understand sort of the value of repetition. So I'm talking about meditation,

but really like this applies to every kind of part of our life. The reason that we strip away

all of the distractions in our life is so that we can actually see more clearly. It's very, very

difficult to focus on the breath when there's lots of things kind of going on around us or when we're

engaged in other things. So we're really just trying to sort of create the most conducive

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